Revolving Door Newsletter: 03.16.07

Berner's Revenge Lightens Condé's Ranks

March 16, 2007
Call it Mary Berner's revenge: The former CEO of Fairchild Publications (since dissolved and absorbed completely into Condé Nast) is officially on the job as chief executive at Reader's Digest after months of waiting in the wings for its sale to close. Now that's she's able to hire and fire, she's already poaching her favorites away from her former employer -- Suzanne Grimes, the former publisher of Glamour and a SVP of Condé's corporate sales -- is defecting to become a divisional president, while Eva Dillon is expected to ditch Cookie to become publisher of Berner'...

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